Hey everybody, this thread is looking great, definately some quality stuff. Thought i'd throw in some of my recent sketches from a local garden. Just reference sketches for a project, i'll post the final when its complete.

Great stuff guys.
Omi-kun: I like that lifedrawing
annisahmad: Wow, you are active and you are improving fast.
Seth1: Good work on the hand studies.
IDrawGirls: Good ref-work, looks very clean. Do you use an eraser or do you just not make mistakes?
Twitch: I like those garden studies
RasselTassel:Wow, very unique style, post more!
Retro: Good work, drawing from life is very good.

Pencil is definitely easier, but don't like the two/three steps between paper and digital. Did this in Word (of all places), which is a not bad alternative. First ever guy-with-a-gun; I've done females with guns [sheepish grin]...

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durgldeep: Cool stuff! Keep going.
Guess the legs in the latest don't look right somehow.
I guess there is some foreshortening going on because the close leg is pointing towards the viewer slightly?
Maybe a strict side view would be better.
The legs would look less massive when you compare them with the torso then.
Or maybe it would work if the foot did point towards the viewer more?

buzzz3d: Your's are very inspiring. I want to have as much control when I draw as you have.
I try to get the proportions right while I draw. I ignore pretty much everything else.
So I hardly erase.
Structure comes after that. Line quality doesn't even play a role yet.
There are still a lot of obvious mistakes ... but thanks.

IDrawGirls, thanks for your thoughts/encouragement; you've spotted a lot of things that show the latest one is just 'eyeballed' and a little or a lot beyond my understanding; since it's kinda out of place here anyhow, I'll leave any improvements (if any) for another thread.

durgleep: sure u got the guts! =).. just try it..you dont have to show it to anyone if it gets bad... i draw all sorts of shit all the time and try not to get yourself caught up in details and in whats "wrong and right".. dont waste time on erasing either.. just move on when u fail, and dont lean back when u suceed. ..and most importantly, dont listen to anyone including myself because everyones wrong and there is no right ;P

capt.fred: hehe that would be something .. nah i got the fortune not having to worry about money right now.. i still live at home, im 20 so.. its cool. .. thinking about freelancing to the summer though

ive mostly been drawing while traveling to/from school lately.. so.. alot of mess not worthy scanning

Word will now do (for 'free') close to what illustrator/micrografx
designer/coreldraw would do years ago...though still helps to know what
you're doing, which is not the case below ("bezier" points - been seen
here already):

"Like your continous lines."

have only tried that a couple times (see "guts"), the ones above are
with a mouse = extra wild...this one is after a mag ad (on paper)...

I used a bic mechanical pencil. Design pencils are very hard to handle in my opinion because there are so many..HB, B, H9 etc. I still haven't figure it out whats the best combo. ____________________________________________
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